PALSAR Wide-Area Mapping of Borneo: Methodology and Map Validation

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 605-617

  Hoekman, Dirk H ^a   Vissers, Martin A ^b   Wielaard, Niels ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SarVision   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; Borneo; tropical forest; validation; Wall to wall mapping

Indexed keywords

ALOS PALSAR; BORNEO; TROPICAL FOREST; VALIDATION; WALL-TO-WALL MAPPING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MAPPING; RADAR; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FOREST COVER; MAPPING; MARKOV CHAIN; RADAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL FOREST;

BORNEO;

EID: 78650433755     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2070059     Document Type: Article

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